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The Shapes of Knowledge from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

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  • © 1991

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  1. Donald R. Kelley
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  2. Richard H. Popkin
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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Donald R. Kelley
      Pages 1-4

  3. Classification of Learning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. History and the Encyclopedia

      • Donald R. Kelley
      Pages 7-22

    3. The Classification of the Visual Arts in the Renaissance

      • Claire J. Farago
      Pages 23-48

    4. The Sixteenth-Century Transformation of the Aristotelian Division of the Speculative Sciences

      • Charles H. Lohr
      Pages 49-58

  5. Institutions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
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    2. The Curriculum of Italian Elementary and Grammar Schools, 1350–1500

      • Robert Black
      Pages 137-163

    3. The Forms of Queen Christina’s Academies

      • Susanna Åkerman
      Pages 165-188

    4. The Early Royal Society and the Shape of Knowledge

      • Michael Hunter
      Pages 189-202

    5. Periodical Publication and the Nature of Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Europe

      • Jeremy D. Popkin
      Pages 203-213

    6. Epilogue

      • Richard H. Popkin
      Pages 215-223

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 225-237
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The original idea for a conference on the "shapes of knowledge" dates back over ten years to conversations with the late Charles Schmitt of the Warburg Institute. What happened to the classifications of the sciences between the time of the medieval Studium and that of the French Encyclopedie is a complex and highly abstract question; but posing it is an effective way of mapping and evaluating long term intellectual changes, especially those arising from the impact of humanist scholarship, the new science of the seventeenth century, and attempts to evaluate, to apply, to reconcile, and to institutionalize these rival and interacting traditions. Yet such patterns and transformations cannot be well understood from the heights of the general history of ideas. Within the ~eneral framework of the organization of knowledge the map must be filled in by particular explorations and soundings, and our project called for a conference that would combine some encyclopedic (as well as interdisciplinary and inter­ national) breadth with scholarly and technical depth.

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